Old bar pin

[K1DDO1979]

I put this on "my best finds" earlier by accident! Haha
I was at a old site which once had a hotel and a hill that over looks the ocean. You could tell it was all clear in the past but some trees are growing there so you have to weave in and out of spots to get to hunt. There were some silver coins, large cents and flat buttons dug out of there in the past but now it's mostly the typical modern trash around from parties etc. I dug a few modern penny's and it was just starting to rain when I got a nice deeper hit around 4"-5" so I gave it a try. Out popped this old bar pin. It's all copper except for the jewels. I wish it had all three but one must have fell out long ago because grass roots were grown through the hole. What tells me it's older is even the pin is copper when most newer ones had steal pins that always seem to rust away fast. Thanks for looking and any ideas on its age would be appreciated!

 

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[g-olden years]

Glad you dug such a neat pin among the junk there! My guess as to age is late 1800's - early 1900's because for sure my mom & her pals weren't wearing such old-fashioned styles in the 1940's, BUT her 90-year-old grandmother born in 1866 was definitely wearing pins of similar style to yours! Hers were pinned at the center top of her blouse just below the collar. I was lucky enough to know that great-grandma as a child & liked her old-style clothes and jewelry. Andi

 

[Massieville Mike]

That's a really cool old pin, congratulations!!!

 

[K1DDO1979]

Glad you dug such a neat pin among the junk there! My guess as to age is late 1800's - early 1900's because for sure my mom & her pals weren't wearing such old-fashioned styles in the 1940's, BUT her 90-year-old grandmother born in 1866 was definitely wearing pins of similar style to yours! Hers were pinned at the center top of her blouse just below the collar. I was lucky enough to know that great-grandma as a child & liked her old-style clothes and jewelry. Andi

Thanks for the info and story. I was guessing around that time frame. Would be nice to have the other jewel but I'm lucky it has the pin and it held out that good for being lost for so long underground!